Matching into Family

[supafield]

Very interesting thread.
Thanks for the contributions hycrest....

I've wondered about some of these questions myself as someone who is very fond of emerge but thinks it would be better combined with family than on its own.

I appreciate the insight.

[tooty]

That's reassuring hycrest. Thanks a lot.

[leviathan]

Should I even bother applying to FM if my electives are mostly all in internal med specialties?

I'm happy with either IM or FM, although I will be ranking IM first. As ridiculous as it sounds I was only able to get 1 family med elective because the 2nd one got cancelled. I rebooked another family med elective but it won't be until after CaRMS is over.

[thebouque]

Originally Posted by HycrestJIT

It's one thing to have a clear non-family agenda from the outset where family is merely a safety net and you don't really want to do it.

It's totally another to have family medicine be a second choice that you would really like to get if your first choice passion didn't work out.

The key isn't to have FM keeners only, but to have people who would enjoy being family docs.

Differentiating the two is important, and that plays significantly into ranking/non-ranking/interviews/invites/matching.

Thanks, your posts clarify a lot of things

[thebouque]

Originally Posted by Mandibular

Does a good clerkship evaluation in family med core guarantee you a spot in another university?

It's never guaranteed mandibular. But since you're at Sherbrooke, I assume that you'll apply to Quebec schools. A family medicine spot in any of the 4 Quebec schools is 99% guaranteed if you got a decent eval in your core rotation. I don't know anyone who got into family in a Quebec school and who did an elective in family. Exceptionally this year they had to refuse a few people in urban Laval, UDM and McGill (!) but it was a very exceptional situation. A few of these people had red flags in their application as well (using family as an obvious back up doesn't count as a red flag here). I like Brooksbane's expression, it's a CO2 specialty for canadian graduates.

[Mandibular]

Thanks bouque
btw, the discussion we were having about the being part of CCFP and FRCPC is also doable: one of our school administrators has the following title:

MD, CMFC (MU), CSPQ, FRCPC
I dunno if that means she can practice both, but this is what appears in her email signatures

[thebouque]

Originally Posted by Mandibular

MD, CMFC (MU), CSPQ, FRCPC
I dunno if that means she can practice both, but this is what appears in her email signatures

According to what Maxime said, she probably trained in both, but cannot practice both (again this only applies to our province because we're so special )

EDIT: she's cmfc MU (emergency med) so it's different here:
She's a 2+1 who decided to complete a 5 years ER specialty, OR she's an old 2+1 who got grandfathered (except for McGill, the 5 years ER med programs are relatively recent in Quebec, about 12 years old if I'm not mistaken, and some old ER docs got the credentials without the training). However I don't think she can practice family medicine anymore.